She wasn't. She was one nice lady and one hot chick. I remember once right after she took charge she decided that the pyramids were too...pointed...and she ordered...never mind. Just the reminiscences of my youth. I can tell you though, those diaphanous dresses she word...wooo!

Nope. The Great White Heron is a variant of the GBH. Same species - possibly now a subspecies though there is debate about that. They are much more commonly seen down in the Florida Keys that New York. I have seen the white variant very occasionally in North Carolina and West Virginia - but only very occasionally.

MOM, turn on that porch ceiling fan. It's so muggy out here you're liable to start growing lichens if you stay in one place for very long. Amos will be back soon, and if he DID go snorkeling without those brown swimming trunks, he might need a soft chair to pamper his sunburn. Let's put a few extra cushions on that old wicker armchair in the corner.

My son wore his hair fairly short for years. It was long when he was a toddler, but by the time he started school it was short. He started letting it grow four or five years ago. What was the occasion that made SYS decide to liberate himself? (I used to have long hair, but I love wearing it short now!)

*sob* Sum Yung Sun got himselve professionally shorn this evening. I watched as the clippers sheared off the long, unruly curls he has sported his entire life, and a young man with a very short crew cut emerged.

P.S. I might be off a day and a month on the birthday thing I can't remember, it's been so long that I've been around so if I am off Happy Birthday anyway to the Mother of all and I'll just go have a tequila for Cinco de Mayo!Cheers againPeace. Rustic